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- From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Firewall usage (was: Re: ping works, but ftp/telnet get "no route)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.083428.25554@novell.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 08:34:28 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.045228.11119@decuac.dec.com> <17008@ulysses.att.com> <1992Jul24.203544.28491@watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <1992Jul24.203544.28491@watson.ibm.com> nrt@watson.ibm.com (Nicholas R. Trio) writes:
- >The problems are (1) the "front doors" to the computers just aren't strong
- >enough and (2) even if they were, it's possible to get copies of the
- >"keys" (passwords, etc.) by sniffing the network.
-
- Call me a Capitalist Pig, but no matter how strong my front door is
- and no matter how well protected i keep my keys, i still consider my
- front yard private property and i might put up a fence to keep people
- away from my house.
- don provan
- donp@novell.com
-